TELLING THE STORY

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You cannot understand any one of the sentences on page 266 until you know the subject substantive and the predicate verb of each.

Dictionary Study

Consult the dictionary for the meaning of the following words:

Divide the story into parts. One pupil may tell the first part, another, the second part, and so on.

In telling the story stand erect and look at the class.

Since the World War everybody is more interested in the people of other countries than before. The war not only brought the people of all the states into a closer union, but it made the people of America more friendly with those who are separated from us by thousands of miles. The Junior Red Cross has stimu'lated the interest of boys and girls in the friends across the sea, and has arranged that letters written to the young people of foreign countries shall reach them. Do you not like to know how the people of France, Russia, Armenia, and other countries live, what they produce, and what they think about? They are just as much interested in you as you are in them.

A TALK ON THE JUNIOR RED CROSS

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Write a letter to a boy or a girl in some foreign country, telling about a product of our country. With your letter send a sample of the product you describe. You may send coal, cotton, corn, tobacco, or a manufactured article characteristic of the section in which you live. Would you send wheat or rye to Russia? Why?

There may also be an interchange of products between you and the pupils of a school in another part of the United States. If you live in the south, you will please the children of a northern state by sending them a cotton boll or a sample of sugar cane. If you live in a mineral-producing section, samples of the minerals would be welcomed by pupils who do not have them in their own state.

When you send the sample product, write something about how it is produced. Try to tell something that is not ordinarily found in the textbook about it, so that your letter may be interesting to the one who receives it.

Before you send your letter look it over carefully for mistakes in composition. Be sure that it is neat and plainly written.

A Talk on the Junior Red Cross

No doubt you know a great deal about the work of the Junior Red Cross. About 12,000,000 young people are already working in this organization. If you have not formed a chapter in your school or your community, why not do so?

Plan a talk to give before the class on the work of the Junior Red

Cross. Choose one of the following topics:

1. How to Organize a Chapter of the Junior Red Cross

2. How the Junior Red Cross Helps Us to Be Better Citizens

3. How It Helps People in Need
4. What It Makes for Other People

5. What It Does for the Community

6. How It Promotes Interest in Foreign Lands
7. How It Promotes Thrift

8. The Junior Red Cross News

Read carefully the following paragraph written by the Chairman of the Central Committee of the American Red Cross:

One of the greatest things that can be produced in the child is the habit of service - the object of doing something for somebody else besides himself. He has been started right during the war, and if we can perpetuate that thing, if we can show him that by being of service he is expressing what is after all the fundamental emblem of democracy, and that to be a citizen of a democracy carries with it not merely a benefit but a responsibility of service, we are doing the best possible thing to breed sound, faithful citizenship.

-LIVINGSTON FARRAND

THE PREPOSITION AND ITS OBJECT

Interchange of Pictures with Letters

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Everybody likes to see pictures. The pictures in your geography give you some idea of the life of the people in foreign lands; but how much better you understand these people when you can look over the pictures brought from abroad by a traveler. Why not, then, exchange pictures with some of the children of other countries, in the same way as you exchange products? Send some interesting pictures of the scenery, the people, and the buildings of your country with a letter to a boy or a girl of another country, and request that pictures be exchanged. The Junior Red Cross will assist you to have these letters exchanged.

The Preposition and Its Object Where Is It?

Think of two objects, for example, a house and a cat. Where is the cat in relation to the house? The answer may be expressed in several different ways. Read the following sentences and notice that the italicized words show the relation between the cat and the house.

I. The cat is in the house.

2. The cat is behind the house.
3. The cat is under the house.
4. The cat is in front of the house.
5. The cat is on top of the house
6. The cat is beside the house.

These italicized words are called prepositions. The preposition always takes a substantive (noun or pro